Being modern in the Middle East
Subtitle: revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class
By: Keith David Watenpaugh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780691121697
Subjects: Arab nationalism; Middle class -- Arab countries; Revolutions; Social conflict -- Arab countries; Civil society -- Arab countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : class, modernity and the architectures of community; title: An eastern Mediterranean city on the eve of revolution; title: Being modern in a time of revolution; title: The revolution of 1908 and the beginnings of middle-class politics (1908-1918); title: Ottoman precedents (I) : journalism, voluntary association and the true civilization of the middle class; title: Ottoman precedents (II) : the technologies of the public sphere and the multiple deaths of the Ottoman citizen; title: Being modern in a moment of anxiety; title: The middle class makes sense of a "post-war" world (1918-1924) - Historicism, nationalism, and violence; title: Rescuing the Arab from history : Orientalists' imaginings, Wilsonianism and early Arab nationalism; title: The persistence of empire at the moment of its collapse : Ottoman-Islamic identity and "new men" rebels; title: Remembering the great war : allegory, civic virtue and conservative reaction; title: Being modern in an era of colonialism; title: Middle-class modernity and the culture of the French mandate for Syria (1925-1946); title: Deferring to the Acyan : the middle class and the politics of notables; title: Steel shirts, white badges and the last Qabaday : middle-class fascists and the transformations of civil violence; title: Not quite Syrians : Aleppo's communities of collaboration; title: Coda : the incomplete project of middle class modernity and the paradox of metropolitan desire.